We are proud to announce the release of new major version 8.4 of VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK and the related Annotation, PDF,
JBIG2, JPEG2000, Document Cleanup, OCR, DICOM, and Forms Processing Plug-ins.

What's new in v8.4 of VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK

Web image viewers:

Created the web services for rendering images and thumbnails in ASP.NET:

Created the Web API controller for rendering images and thumbnails in ASP.NET MVC.

Created the HTTP handler for rendering images and thumbnails in ASP.NET.

Created the WCF service for rendering images and thumbnails in ASP.NET.

Created the HTML5 controls, which are written in JavaScript, for viewing images and thumbnails in HTML5.

Created SVG controls, which are written in JavaScript, for viewing images and thumbnails in HTML.

Removed the ASP.NET web controls. HMTL5 or SVG controls must be used instead of removed ASP.NET web controls.

Added the ability to apply the ortogonal rotation to the image in web image viewer.

Added the ability to apply the ortogonal rotation to the thumbnail in web thumbnail viewer.

Added the ability to add captions for thumbnails in web thumbnail viewer.

Added the ability to view images and thumbnails without caching of images on server.

Process images in ASP.NET:

Created the web services for processing of images in ASP.NET:

Created the Web API controller for processing of images in ASP.NET MVC.

Created the HTTP handler for processing of images in ASP.NET.

Created the WCF service for processing of images in ASP.NET.

Created a set of JavaScript classes to simplify work with web services.

Print images in ASP.NET:

Created the JavaScript classes for printing images and PDF documents in ASP.NET.

Demo applications:

Created the AspNetDemos project, which includes all ASP.NET WebForms demos.

Created the AspNetMvcDemos project, which includes all ASP.NET MVC demos.

Allows to configure the visual appearance of interactive zones: color, transparency, size, size of the zone.

Added the ability to use the JavaScript interpreter and support for performing of JavaScript actions.

Added the support for common actions of user interface (copy, cut, paste, remove, select all) for the following visual tools: PdfAnnotationTool, PdfContentEditorTool, PdfTextSelectionTool, PdfImageExtractionTool, PdfRemoveContentool.

Working with PDF annotations:

Created the appearance generators of common PDF annotations.

Working with PDF interactive fields:

Added the ability to import values of interactive form from XFDF format.

Added the ability to export values of interactive form to XFDF format.

Printing of PDF document:

Increased the overall print performance and reduced the memory usage while printing PDF documents in WinForms, this was made possible because the new PdfPrintDocument class prints the PDF documents in vector form.

Working with fonts of PDF document:

Added the support for composite fonts with variable code length.

Added the support for predefined CMap-encodings for composite fonts.

Added the support for TrueType font collections (.ttc files).

Added the ability to create a subset for font, which is based on a Type1 program.

Created a new version of FontProgramsController-s with improved and simplified algorithms of font search and substitution.

Added the ability to substitute the program for 14 standard fonts.

Added the ability to pack Type1 and Type3 fonts.

Added the ability to embed and pack fonts based on TTC program.

Added the ability to obfuscate text for Type3 fonts, fonts based on Type1 and CFF program.

Added the ability to view progress and get a detailed information about font obfuscation, font packing, content removal.

Fixed some bugs in parser of Type1 fonts.

Fixed some bugs in parser of CFF fonts.

Render PDF document:

Added the rendering support for vertically aligned text.

Added the ability to control the drawing of PDF annotations using the PdfContentRenderer class.

Added the support for extended management of PDF annotations rendering using rendering settings of PDF document.

Work with a low-level tree of PDF document:

Added the ability to view and change the tree of basic objects of PDF document.

Added the ability to store the user data in any node of PDF document.

Demo applications:

PdfEditorDemo has been fully revised:

Added the independent panels for:

text selection, text extraction and text search

filling out the interactive form fields of PDF document

annotating of PDF document

creation of the interactive form fields of PDF document

extracting of images from PDF page

adding graphics to a PDF page

removing content from PDF page.

Added the ability to annotate PDF documents.

Added the ability to fill out the interactive fields of PDF document.

Added the ability to create PDF documents with interactive forms.

Added the ability to export/import fields of PDF interactive form in XFDF format.

Added the ability to export the interactive form fields to PDF format.

Added the ability to assign any action to any trigger of PDF annotations and interactive fields.